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barack obama has been and, obama's sister not including his immediate family. this is his closest living relative and as we speak she is selling coal on the streets of a small village in kenya. she has no teeth and wants to get dentures but doesn't have the money. obama hasn't contributed a penny to help her either. in 2006 obama winds to his hometown where his father grew up at the local school there and they were so excited they were coming they renamed the school of barack obama school. obama toured the school with all kinds of celebrities and the prime minister of kenya and obama said i'm going to help the school. i'm going to provide books and facilities. you don't have sanitation and you don't have proper water supplies. i'm going to look out for you. since then the school has send multiple requests and letters and reminders with absolutely no help forthcoming from obama. once again the simple explanation is we are just dealing with a guy who doesn't live by his own standards, but i want to suggest there is actually a deeper mystery than that. something e
barack obama has been and, obama's sister not including his immediate family. this is his closest living relative and as we speak she is selling coal on the streets of a small village in kenya. she has no teeth and wants to get dentures but doesn't have the money. obama hasn't contributed a penny to help her either. in 2006 obama winds to his hometown where his father grew up at the local school there and they were so excited they were coming they renamed the school of barack obama school....
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something bush and clinton and obama all did. support a tax equity act that would allow gay couples the same tax privileges on health insurance benefits. he has evolve on any other issue and the federal marriage amendment and figure out being for federalism and the tenth amendment are good republican positions. that said i don't think he is going to do any of that. i am going to take a wait and see attitude on his part. >> the vice president -- >> i love criticizing him. i would vote for him in a heartbeat. >> that is not an endorsement by the cato institute. >> the governor will be the keynote speaker it was announced that the republican convention so that is a good thing. i don't have any preferences and unfortunately even if they have more socially tolerant views on these issues they disavow them once they become a candidate. >> let's ask audience the questions they have. please wait to show your call. wait for the microphone is the crucial thing because everyone in the room has to hear you and we are going out over the intern
something bush and clinton and obama all did. support a tax equity act that would allow gay couples the same tax privileges on health insurance benefits. he has evolve on any other issue and the federal marriage amendment and figure out being for federalism and the tenth amendment are good republican positions. that said i don't think he is going to do any of that. i am going to take a wait and see attitude on his part. >> the vice president -- >> i love criticizing him. i would...
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she is also known -- she has also known every president from harry truman to barack obama with the exception of lyndonm johnson who tried but fail today meet her. i remember being impressed whenr an official at the american embassy in london told me that during the memorial service att st. paul's cathedral after the 9/11 attacks, the queen sang every single word of the american national anthem. and i would betsi that therem. aren't any presidents who canh sing all the words to "god save the queen." since we are here today on the national mall, i thought i woul focus on the queen's fondness ml for this country and its people, pote little known and well known, and in so doingnown illuminate corners of her life that can help you understand her better. the queen to help understand her better. it was most often played out in state visits here when it was written. one was the first came to washington in 1951, she was a 25-year-old princess, only months away from becoming queen. harry truman was completely smitten, announcing that when everyone becomes acquainted with you, they immediately followed
she is also known -- she has also known every president from harry truman to barack obama with the exception of lyndonm johnson who tried but fail today meet her. i remember being impressed whenr an official at the american embassy in london told me that during the memorial service att st. paul's cathedral after the 9/11 attacks, the queen sang every single word of the american national anthem. and i would betsi that therem. aren't any presidents who canh sing all the words to "god save...
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rick ginsburg is a great fan of president obama, and i do think that she will leave probably in obama's third year. she is 79 years old. she often says she wants to serve until she is 82 years old. that is one her idol served until. you know, she's a human being. she is a widow. she loves what she does and she's got it and she has the brains and the health to do it. she is particularly enamored of her new colleague, elena kagan, and her choice is to be the singer liberal on the supreme court,. >> so i think that she is going to be okay. [laughter] if obama is reelected and it is looking that way, i was not pandering, but i was making another one of our excellent productions. i don't think any of the conservatives will leave voluntarily. that is starting to be a pretty old court in justice kennedy and justice leah -- they are both 70 sixer sold. you know, you don't always get choice. i think that if romney wins, ruth bader ginsburg will try to hold on for the next four years. if obama wins, kennedy and scalia will try to hold on, but you never know what'll happen. >> can you speculate wh
rick ginsburg is a great fan of president obama, and i do think that she will leave probably in obama's third year. she is 79 years old. she often says she wants to serve until she is 82 years old. that is one her idol served until. you know, she's a human being. she is a widow. she loves what she does and she's got it and she has the brains and the health to do it. she is particularly enamored of her new colleague, elena kagan, and her choice is to be the singer liberal on the supreme court,....
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the bardot is a so much higher for governor romney then it is president obama and we know that going in and we have to accept that it's tough. >> the next question over here. 's vi of the quick question. my first question is what is this thing between you and hewitt concerning the -- [inaudible] >> apparently you're not you are not supposed to say his name because he moved the browns franchise to baltimore city takes that very personally but let me tell you something, hugh hewitt has been so kind and gracious and he is a great friend of mine and we were playing back and forth that he was great to promote tonight's event. he was the driving force behind the library and he is one of the best in the business. he's a great guy. >> why did you stop at 50? >> first edition, first edition. if this book does well we will do a second edition i hope. >> what the's the secret to winning in november? >> we talk about raising the bar. we have to get everybody to vote. i can tell you how many people i meet around the country hard-working people, dishwashero say i've never voted but this is the air
the bardot is a so much higher for governor romney then it is president obama and we know that going in and we have to accept that it's tough. >> the next question over here. 's vi of the quick question. my first question is what is this thing between you and hewitt concerning the -- [inaudible] >> apparently you're not you are not supposed to say his name because he moved the browns franchise to baltimore city takes that very personally but let me tell you something, hugh hewitt...
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i don't think that the -- i'm sorry, the obama administration or the european administrations are more happy with democracy than they were with dictators as, you know, i think it's a question of interest. but what are the interests now? over the last ten years, the chinese economic presence in the middle east was multiplied by seven. it's a very powerful presence. and the brink -- bric countries, brazil, india, china, russia, turkey, are playing a very important role, and we don't talk about this. there is a shift here, and for many reasons it's going to have an impact on the countries, on the relationship between israel and the other arab countries because, remember, china has not the same relationship to israel than the united states of america. so this is a very big concern, what is going to happen in the region. we have to take these seriously. it's not only political, it's economic. and geostrategic. so this is a second point which is the answer. the economic vision coming from the arab world. when i was talking to the current president in tunisia, i was with him recently, and he
i don't think that the -- i'm sorry, the obama administration or the european administrations are more happy with democracy than they were with dictators as, you know, i think it's a question of interest. but what are the interests now? over the last ten years, the chinese economic presence in the middle east was multiplied by seven. it's a very powerful presence. and the brink -- bric countries, brazil, india, china, russia, turkey, are playing a very important role, and we don't talk about...
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and you are not doing this the obama administration and our government is not doing the job. i'm asking the american citizens at the end of the day what are you doing to help with the construction of the complex issue to support democratic everywhere. if you are serious about democracy you have to be serious about democracy. it's about explaining and tenses and understanding from behind the scene what is happening. that's is one answer to the question, the third question was about what you are saying about [inaudible] once again. if i wrote if you don't website. it came after the book was published. i wrote a paper. it's important to be knick and open and open to the civil society. there's something they have a problem with credibility. they are the guardian of the religious reference. they are dealing with tensions and it's very visible where you see what swhapg the young generations of, you know, the islamists now. they are not happy with the generation in our tension. so this is where we should get this and promote something which is along-term strategy. after one, two, or
and you are not doing this the obama administration and our government is not doing the job. i'm asking the american citizens at the end of the day what are you doing to help with the construction of the complex issue to support democratic everywhere. if you are serious about democracy you have to be serious about democracy. it's about explaining and tenses and understanding from behind the scene what is happening. that's is one answer to the question, the third question was about what you are...
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obamse join me in welcoming the man behind not always, barack obama. [cheers]thank yo [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you very much.. [cheers]ppreciate it [applause] thank you, i appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you so much. but i know that i made a speech tha] there are no red states and blue states, but i suspect that thisc state is kind of blue looking at the crowd out here tonight. what a magnificent turnout. i am so grateful to all of you f escially in he time out of your day to travel here, especially in new york traffic, which i just breathed myself. much smler when the book first came out in, i had a much smaller reception.e this is one of the stuff that is made, and it is wonderful to be ack, close to 10 years later, and to also see how things have. grown.'m going too i i am very grateful to all of you for being here. what i'm going to do is spend an few minutes talking a little biy about my perspective, asampaigna expressed not only in thend boo, but also in the campaign and how those things c
obamse join me in welcoming the man behind not always, barack obama. [cheers]thank yo [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you very much.. [cheers]ppreciate it [applause] thank you, i appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you so much. but i know that i made a speech tha] there are no red states and blue states, but i suspect that thisc state is kind of blue looking at the crowd out here tonight. what a magnificent turnout. i am so grateful to all of...
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obama does reverend. your father is a mythic figure. kind of like you might compare to mandela or gandhi, a great freedom fighter. now in reality, barack obama was not bad. he was either philandering at harvard or driving drunk in kenya. he ultimately killed a man in a truck driving accident. so this is not the real barack obama senior. but this is the idea cultivated in obama's mind. interest only when obama got older, he realized that his dad was not like that. his sister told him, where he revering this great data bars? he actually was not the guy you think he was and obama has sort of a crisis. one of the pivotal themes in our film is when obama goes to his father's grave. .. in not going to find madison and jefferson on mentalist. these are the guys that obama sought out. did not pump into the ministry. it's quite a group. in hawaii the former communist frank marshall davis. at columbia the palestinian radical, a member of the palestine national council described by commentary magazine is a professor
obama does reverend. your father is a mythic figure. kind of like you might compare to mandela or gandhi, a great freedom fighter. now in reality, barack obama was not bad. he was either philandering at harvard or driving drunk in kenya. he ultimately killed a man in a truck driving accident. so this is not the real barack obama senior. but this is the idea cultivated in obama's mind. interest only when obama got older, he realized that his dad was not like that. his sister told him, where he...
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obama recently in david maraniss's book about obama he names a girl who dated obama, claims she was the girlfriend that obama refers to in his own book but their stories don't match. when meredith went to obama obama said i had lots of girlfriends which is interesting because none of them have come ford. no journalist has interviewed many of them. this is a man with many black holes in his biography. i think this is the result -- when we were doing our film we would be in hawaii and indonesia and talked to people related to the obamas and knew his dad and his mom and a new young obama and i asked when rio interviewed and we have never been interviewed. no one has been down here so incredibly this is the biggest story in america and being truly uncovered in the mainstream press. it is a little bit of the scandal and not good for our democratic politics. not just the liberal media. the liberal media was tough on clinton and carter. there's another factor going on that leads people in the press not only to not cover obama but when incriminating information surfaces to try to squelch it can
obama recently in david maraniss's book about obama he names a girl who dated obama, claims she was the girlfriend that obama refers to in his own book but their stories don't match. when meredith went to obama obama said i had lots of girlfriends which is interesting because none of them have come ford. no journalist has interviewed many of them. this is a man with many black holes in his biography. i think this is the result -- when we were doing our film we would be in hawaii and indonesia...
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support, obama would get the credit. and he would be waltzing to, you know, a piece of cake re-election. so i do think, and there's actually a third problem that should be mentioned. peter orszag, the former head of the budget bureau, wrote an op-ed in "the new york times"es saying, basically, contra my own instincts, the problem with the united states is there's too much democracy. we can't get anything done if we actually try to do it through elections and democratic procedures, what we need are ever more expert commissions that will make decisions for us. now, maybe that's true. but it should be recognized that if that is the solution to our problems, then we should stop prattling to other countries around the world that what they need is more democracy because, in fact, we would have come to the conclusion that democracy doesn't really work. >> sandy, i really welcome this. i think my understanding is that the time of the federalist papers in our constitution, 1787 and so forth, grew out of a lot of studies of the co
support, obama would get the credit. and he would be waltzing to, you know, a piece of cake re-election. so i do think, and there's actually a third problem that should be mentioned. peter orszag, the former head of the budget bureau, wrote an op-ed in "the new york times"es saying, basically, contra my own instincts, the problem with the united states is there's too much democracy. we can't get anything done if we actually try to do it through elections and democratic procedures,...
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[laughter] [laughter] in any case, here is born barack obama, president obama. biracial, kenyan father and white mother. in hawaii. in one sense, you might say that that is the luckiest place in the united states he could have been born. hawaii is a multiracial place full of water called half-and-half, the native term. japanese, chinese, hawaiian, anglo, everybody is some form of that. one of barack obama's friends in high school, his friend was tom told -- he was actually chinese. he was born african american by birth. very few there were connected to the military bases in honolulu. in one sense, from the day he was born, he had to deal with racial america, but in another sense he had no cultural acclamation to that. he was living with his mother and his grandparents at various points in his life from that point, for the next 20 years of his life, really, is a search for self identity, which is the second half of my book. how he figured himself out. he is only six years old when his mother, after divorcing barack obama senior, with whom she never really lived,
[laughter] [laughter] in any case, here is born barack obama, president obama. biracial, kenyan father and white mother. in hawaii. in one sense, you might say that that is the luckiest place in the united states he could have been born. hawaii is a multiracial place full of water called half-and-half, the native term. japanese, chinese, hawaiian, anglo, everybody is some form of that. one of barack obama's friends in high school, his friend was tom told -- he was actually chinese. he was born...
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on obama? >> guest: one thing, and i hope this is not too annoying, if you are a true historian, the idea is that unlike current analyst who wait 30 or 40 years and get the documents that people did not see in real-time and also know how the story turned out so that you could gain ahistorical view -- i was we can do that with health care yet. i think on obama, what was your other question? >> host: bernie is now gone. he wanted to talk about presidential cowardice. >> guest: oh, yes, that's right. in my mind, the worst circle of hell should be for a president of doctors the issues of the most important time. if you're trying to think of an example, i think president buchanan would regret the top of the scale. because for four years he tried to dodge the issue of slavery. he didn't want to get involved. he didn't want to make himself unpopular. the result was that when it really came to a head in 1861, once abraham lincoln had the presidency, the conflict over slavery was four years were violent
on obama? >> guest: one thing, and i hope this is not too annoying, if you are a true historian, the idea is that unlike current analyst who wait 30 or 40 years and get the documents that people did not see in real-time and also know how the story turned out so that you could gain ahistorical view -- i was we can do that with health care yet. i think on obama, what was your other question? >> host: bernie is now gone. he wanted to talk about presidential cowardice. >> guest:...